Norwegian archaeologists are salvaging priceless artifacts from melting glaciers—why were they found there?
17 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
An earlier article, featured here at the Talkshop said ‘artifacts have come to light thanks to a warming climate, proving that a mountain pass served as an important trade network’. We’re told ‘The pass was in use between the years 300 and 1500 AD, and most active around the year 1000. Its use declined with […]
Norwegian archaeologists are salvaging priceless artifacts from melting glaciers—why were they found there?
Why heat pumps will never work in Britain
17 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Another damning report on heat pumps: Heat pumps are poorly suited to British homes and the Government’s relentless drive to install them will cause “uproar” across the country, energy leaders have warned. The controversial devices have been adopted across Europe, but ministers are warned […]
Why heat pumps will never work in Britain
A few thoughts on the war
17 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics
I’m not a pundit, of course, so take this as the reaction of a biologist who reads the news and a Leftist who doesn’t hate Israel: As the days pass—and as I predicted—the world’s sympathy for Israel and its residents butchered by Hamas is morphing into sympathy for the Palestinians. And indeed, Palestinian civilians deserve […]
A few thoughts on the war
Ten years of Sex, Drugs and Economics
17 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
This week marks the ten-year anniversary of this Sex, Drugs and Economics blog. Here’s my first post (from 8 October 2013), briefly explaining my rationale for blogging, including:…this blog is a way for me to create a discussion space for my students, and help them to recognise the value in the economic approach to looking…
Ten years of Sex, Drugs and Economics
Today’s post by Tom Gross on the war
16 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
It turns out that readers here can’t subscribe to Tom Gross‘s email newsletters, as they’re intended for people in media and politics. Tom has, however, kindly agreed to send the newsletter to me and allow me to reproduce the contents on this site. Here’s his latest newsletter, with his words indented. 90-year-old Czech-born Holocaust survivor Gina […]
Today’s post by Tom Gross on the war
Anti-Israeli protests and sentiments at American colleges
16 Oct 2023 1 Comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics
Among American politics, nothing pains me more right now than college students supporting the Palestinian desire to erase Israel. Further, this week those sentiments often came with approval of Hamas’s butchery a week ago. (After all, didn’t Israel bring it on itself?) Yet, as Bill Maher notes in the short video below, Palestine (and Hamas) […]
Anti-Israeli protests and sentiments at American colleges
BARRIE SAUNDERS: Labour one of two election losers
16 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Labour is a big time election loser, but is not the only one. Labour will now have to re-build, while it has two strong competitors on its left – The Greens and The Maori Party. Given Labour’s natural position as a major party, this is much more difficult than it is for the niche parties.…
BARRIE SAUNDERS: Labour one of two election losers
From the comments, what will happen in New Zealand edition?
16 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Libertarian reform isn’t at the top of the headlines in New Zealand, but there are a few things you might expect in that direction: – Reforming pharmaceutical approvals so products with approval in two other trusted peer countries get automatic approval in NZ. Relevant because of the relatively slow approval time for Covid-19 vaccine in […]
From the comments, what will happen in New Zealand edition?
David D. Friedman: The Machinery of Freedom, Education, and India
16 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in David Friedman, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, property rights
“Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt”: Panetta Repeats Debunked Russian Disinformation Claims on Laptop
16 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Last night, many of us responded to the statement of Leon Panetta, former CIA Director in the Obama Administration, that he “has no regrets” about signing the now infamous letter of 51 former intelligence officials suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Even more unsettling were his comments that he believes it could […]
“Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt”: Panetta Repeats Debunked Russian Disinformation Claims on Laptop
Facts Trump Feelings: Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Tale Rapidly Unravels
15 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The only certainties attached to the wind and solar transition are being constantly whacked with crushing power bills and sitting freezing or boiling in the dark, when the sun sets and/or calm weather sets in. Whereas Europeans are crab-walking away from their mad rush towards wind and solar – with many tapping into next-generation nuclear power […]
Facts Trump Feelings: Grand Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Tale Rapidly Unravels
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Recent Comments